Amit Budhwani Composition 2 Heidi Skurat Harris 09/15/2013

Why international students pay more?

After going to university of Arkansas at little rock, Most of the international students start worrying about money in their first year. They do not want to spend all of their money in education and their time working somewhere that pays them minimum wage and work full time and pays all of it in their education. Some non-citizens dont get job in campus of UALR just because they dont have FAFSA and work study to get a job in UALR. FAFSA required a permanent residency in United States which most international students don't have. Some international students have issues with studies and have to maintain their routine so how FAFSA can give this work-study documents to international students who are in need of getting good job so they don't have to work full time jobs to pay for their collage. FAFSA is federal student aid for citizens of Arkansas and USA a way to get scholarships, grant, loans which they can pay after they get a decent job. We dont get FAFSA we dont get decent jobs without permanent residency in United States we have to pay more college fees just because we dont have permanent residency. This topic is a really great topic for me as all international students study by paying more money. I am the one who pay more money to this collage as I am an international student in UALR. I live here almost my entire life. I came here to study and be a better person make my

dad and mom proud and choose a right career for me. Why do we have to pay more fees as an international students? My first source is the fact that why international students have to pay more fees and they even pay taxes like citizens of this country do. The source mention on nytimes.com an article here mention is about why international students have to pay more money even though they live in United States forever. International students here are the backbones of the universities and classes going on and paying the professor their fees well if citizens of america can use this same services with paying less money why are they charging us international students double of what citizens of united states are paying. This source mention about international students do not pay taxes that is why government do not take them as seriously as they do to citizens. In this source they have mention how much international students paid for studying in the same country each abroad students pay $28,059 dollars to attend university in USA . More than quarter of the class gets free ride to college without even paying a penny out of their pocket. More than 42% of international students enroll every year from abroad. I often think is this right how they treating us international student which are noncitizens. We cant apply for FAFSA we dont get decent jobs without permanent residency in United States we have to pay more collage fees just because we dont have permanent residency. Domestic peers have lot of advantages from federal and state funds from which international student would not get. I often wondered how some international students can manage to pay this much money quietly without even discussing about this topic or by writing an argument to UALR about this. They cant even complain about this issue to anyone because its not just a person that doing this its a system that department of Arkansas education follow for years. International students do pay taxes and I can even say that they pay more taxes to live in this

country as I am an international student here to the government they pay more taxes to show that they have some kind of business related visa called L-2 to work in a stores that doing business in this country and paying personal and business taxes. They can't buy property here in United States because they required to have a permanent residency as same required documents for going into collages in United States.

Non-citizen pay taxes a lot more because they have to live in USA and it is absolutely right that we pay more taxes than a us citizen but as a non-citizen paying taxes is right but not getting tax deductions is not right we pay taxes than why cant we get tax deductions. Some international students want to work more times and so they can pay their collages fees but they cannot do that they have to pay more fees and have to work certain hours in united states as their status said which is F-2 legal status which students from abroad can come here for studies but why they have restrictions to work only work around 15-20 hours a week they cant pay their collage fees. My second source here is I find some of unknowing facts when I research about this for hours on internet the article from usnews.com. The article mention about how much money do international students contribute to us economy and it is about 28 billion dollar last school year. This money goes to citizens students that studies for free ride and get scholarships, book grant, food voucher and other good treatment without paying any money in collages. The articles mention in usnews.com is how many international students gets admitted in us colleges and universities around 10,000 students from Saudi Arabia, India, china, and many parts of the world come here to study which they dont get properly in their countries.

The department of education system and UALR international board need to discuss about why and for what reasons international students have to pay more and if they change some rules to treat all students equal doesnt matter where they are from either they from china, India, Saudi Arabia, and anywhere from the world they should treated same and all religions and race are equal whether they are black white brown it doesnt matter they came here for studies and they should treated them equally. This is about how to make money for colleges and universities well there are many other different ways to make money but taking more money from international students and less money from citizen students is not the right way of making money charge all students equally treat all students equally which in USA they do. USA is one of the top countries that have given equal rights to all race and religions to live in their country and it is a wonderful thing. Universities of Arkansas and department of education system should charge less money to international students they come here to have better education study harder and make their parents proud and find good career for themselves. They come here to achieve their dreams they come here to achieve their goals they come here to make their parents proud and what are universities doing, charging double money and so they will drop out of college and go back to their country more than half of international students are in debts or have to pay back their loans in home country and will drop out without a degree imagine how can they manage to pay their loans in minimum wage without a degree. The universities of Arkansas and department of education can charge same to international students plus and they can keep professors paying the fees and have everything maintain without charging double to international students and maintaining staff and universities

payment and control the staff. They need to understand charging too much to international students is just not right. University of Arkansas little rock have to control on some expenses they are doing to maintain their expenses and have staff in control. They can help this by slowing down some of the expenses such as electricity and other things that maintained in UALR. Maintain staff and lowering no need costs such as spending lot of money in gym equipments and other supplies of the gym like when trade mill goes down not replacing a whole machine but to fix machines and other accessories that are in the gym and other places in campus. That way university of Arkansas little rock can help international students by charging same price to citizen and non-citizen and can fulfill their needs of education by doing this university of Arkansas little rock have more students and make more money by doing this they can add more international students from worldwide and have their collage listed on top 5 collages of united stated and have their collage count as a world most international students added to their admissions.

Work cited

Lewin, Tamar. Taking More Seats on Campus, Foreigners Also Pay the Freight. Essays
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Hopkins, Katy. International Students Continue to Flock to U.S. Colleges, Grad Schools
Essays on The probability of having to pay the brunt of costs did not dampen enrollment numbers in 2011-2012. November 12 2012. (www.usnews.com)